Thank you for putting your thoughts about Brigitte into words! There's a whole thought experiment going on reddit about how everyone would complain if Pharah was released today cause her abilities can be seen as OP. But it really has been the age of ability denial, especially with the buffs to Sombra and Mei (ur frozen forever). There was one day that I could not drop a beat for the life of me cause it kept getting cancelled. :(
Yeah, absolutely! If Brigitte was released in a vacuum, maybe the story would be different. But right now there are a lot of issues that are stacking on top of each other setting her up for Maximum Brigitte-ness.
-> Improved Mei/Sombra denial-> Reinhardt’s desperate need of improvement (as well as Torb and Symm but primarily Rein in terms of bugs and the stun-through-shield, interrupt-charge BS)-> Doomfist’s continuous bug improvement, making his stuns and knockback more consistent and potent-> Nerfs/changes to other support heroes (small nerf to zenyatta, Lucio changes paired with Sombra’s new complete Lucio shutdown, Mercy’s changes)-> Nerfs to Tracer & Genji
The new heroes are intriguing to look at in terms of how we see this going on:
Ana (not a huge contributor to this at low levels and doesn’t have pickrate in high levels, but sleep dart could be considered a significant cancellation when done just right, + healing denial)Sombra (significant ability/ult denial + healing denial)Orisa (graviton pulls are about it for Orisa, though her fortify is... so good... weep)Doomfist (knockbacks/stun city)Moira (none of the above, but opens a can of worms with lock-on + large range damage orb that I won’t go into)Brigitte (knockback/stun city + dps dampening galore + healing)